Beagle Board The Beagle Board is a low-power, low-cost Single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key, designed with open source development in mind, to demonstrate the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip. The board was developed by a small team of TI engineers.$150 board sports Cortex-A8
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Beagle Board The Beagle Board is a low-power, low-cost Single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key, designed with open source development in mind, to demonstrate the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip. The board was developed by a small team of TI engineers.$150 board sports Cortex-A8
Features
The Beagle Board measures approximately 3" by 3" and has all the functionality of a basic computer. The OMAP3530 includes an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU (which may run either Windows CE or Linux), a TMS320C64x+ DSP for accelerated video and audio decoding, and an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 GPU to provide accelerated 2D and 3D rendering that supports OpenGL ES 2.0. Video out is provided through separate S-Video and HDMI connections. A single SD/MMC card slot supporting SDIO, a USB On-the-Go port, an RS-232 serial connection, a JTAG connection, and two stereo 3.5mm jacks for audio in/out are provided.
Built-in storage and memory is provided through a PoP chip that includes 256MB of NAND flash memory and 128MB of RAM.
The board uses up to 2W of power and can be powered from either a USB connection, or a separate 5v power supply. Because of the efficient power consumption the board requires no additional cooling.
Specifications
Beagle Board described
- Package on Package POP CPU/Memory chip.
- Processor TI OMAP3530 Processor - 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 core
- 'HD capable' TMS320C64x+ core (75MHz upto 720p @30fps)"OMAP3530 Beagle Board" High performance and numerous expansion options:page 3
- Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 2D/3D graphics processor supporting dual independent displays
- 256MB LPDDR RAM memory
- 256MB NAND Flash memory
- Peripheral connections"OMAP3530 Beagle Board" High performance and numerous expansion options:page 4
- DVI-D (HDMI connector chosen for size - maximum resolution is 1280x1024) , S-Video, USB OTG (mini AB), USB, SD/MMC card slot
- Stereo in and out jack plug sockets
- RS232 port
- JTAG connections
- Power socket (5V barrel connector type)
- Development"OMAP3530 Beagle Board" Boot Options: page 9
- Boot code store in ROM
- Boots from NAND memory, SD/MMC, USB, or Serial
- Alternative Boot source button.
- Has been demonstrated using Android, Angstrom LinuxLinux-friendly Beagle fetches $150, Ubuntu and Maemo Linux distributions, the Win CE operating system and a development version of RISC OS 5.
